Java Casting Object to Array type

Question

I am using a web service that returns a plain object of the type  Object   Debug shows clearly that there is some sort of Array in this object so I was wondering how I can cast this  Object  to an Array  or similar    I tried the following   Collection lt String gt  arr    Collection lt String gt   values  Vector lt String gt  arr    Vector lt String gt   values  ArrayList lt String gt  arr    ArrayList lt String gt   values    But nothing worked  I always get an InvocationTargetException   What am I doing wrong   Edit   Sadly  I had to remove the link to the image that showed the output of Eclipse s debugger because it was no longer available  Please do not wonder why in the answers an image is mentioned that is not there anymore

User · Accepted Answer

Your values object is obviously an Object   containing a String   containing the values   String   stringValues    String   values 0

User · Answer

What you ve got  according to the debug image  is an object array containing a string array  So you need something like   Object   objects    Object    values  String   strings    String    objects 0     You haven t shown the type of values - if this is already Object   then you could just use  String   values 0    Of course even with the cast to Object   you could still do it in one statement  but it s ugly   String   strings    String      Object   values  0

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